The adventure log is where you list the sessions and adventures your party has been on, but for now, we suggest doing a very light “story so far” post. Just give a brief overview of what the party has done up to this point. After each future session, create a new post detailing that night’s adventures.

One final tip: Don’t stress about making your Obsidian Portal campaign look perfect. Instead, just make it work for you and your group. If everyone is having fun, then you’re using Obsidian Portal exactly as it was designed, even if your adventure log isn’t always up to date or your characters don’t all have portrait pictures.

Marked

Evan Montrose and Warden Carlos Ramirez are travelling back to Baltimore by ways of the Nevernever. Evan’s father, a great wizard of the White Council, has died. While escorting back Evan from his year off gallivanting across Europe, Ramirez asks Evan to become a full fledged Warden and help against the war against the Red Court. Evan is reluctant. Ramirez asks for a small favour. He needs Evan to find out how such a powerful wizard of the White Council died under such mysterious circumstances. As Ramirez opens a portal back into Baltimore, Evan says he’ll look into it.

Dante Storm received word from a mysterious source to meet at Penn station in regards to his parents death. A downed plane which he was also on and was the only survivor. He meets Leanansidhe a striking woman who reveals that she owed a debt to his mother. While bound to not reveal the information she knows, she warns him of incoming danger and councils him to learn from the people he meets this night and to see her later for more guidance, that is, if he survives the night. She directs him to a corner of the almost deserted station where a tear in the fabric of space opens up. As Lea somehow disappears, Evan falls from the portal onto the station floor.

Henry Graves is taking the last train back into Baltimore. After stunning, and positive, news of the state of the burns on his face, he realizes he’s being studied by one of the few occupants of his car. She recognizes him as a former famous chef. He tells her to stop staring. The woman continues an awkward conversation until her companion, Susan Mallenbaum intervenes. She apologizes on behalf of her friend, Evelyn Masters, and gives him tickets to the aquarium where they both work.
As the train is nearing the station, Henry’s uncontrollable power goes off. A third eye, so-to-speak, he’s had since childhood. He sees something wrong at Penn station. He also sees something different among both Evelyn and Susan. Nothing. Most people give off some aura during his second sight, but this time nothing. Nothing but a weird marking. His sight turns off and the trio enters the station only to be led by construction signs to a far off exit. They all encounter Dante Storm looking dumbfounded at Evan Montrose. Henry sees the same symbol that was seen during his sight, adorning both Evelyn and Susan present on Evan’s blazer.

Kevin MacKintrye finishes up a talk with Mr. Swayze in the campus parking lot and heads for his scooter. A blur of figures darts into his vision and into the bushes in front of his ride. He swore the things entering where some viscous animals but what exits is a battered figure wearing a trench-coat and holding an honest-to-god katana. The man runs off faster than any man Kevin has ever seen. A second figure exits the bush and it’s Tera West, a councilor at the college. She looks quite hurt but convinces Kevin to give him a ride to pursue the man, which she identifies as Damocles Ravenborn They follow him to Penn Station where the run into Evan, Dante, Henry, and two other girls, but no Damocles.

A man showed up on a balcony above the party. He spouted words of a new season approaching the town. Some select people would have the honour of joining him in this coming change and warned the others to stay out of the way. He used thaumaturgy to summon a grotesque creature that had an English accent. That creature scanned the room and a harmless glow befelled on some and not others. The man commanded an outside source to begin attacking. Flying monkeys started picking people up and delivering them to the man who had opened another portal somewhere. Damocles Ravenborn showed up and disappeared with Tera West. Kevin ran to his scooter and left. Dante lured some monkeys to the basement where he dispatched them all with a bow he apparently carries around everywhere. Evan and Henry could only fend off capture as the man took the girls and various other bystanders from the last train through the portal. Henry did get one last look into the man’s eyes and it was revealed to him that this man was Russell Carson. Carson also now knew Henry’s real name.
Evan took Henry back to his home to explain what he could of this supernatural world that was just exposed. More accurately, Henry invited himself. Dante went to the hospital. Kevin got home, went to bed. Kevin woke up to a thud on his door. He looked through the view hole and saw a bleeding, hurt animal. He ignored the animal and went back to bed. A few winks later the door flew into Kevin’s apartment and Damocles was standing there with a sword to Tera’s throat. Kevin followed Damocles instructions and went with him.
Needing to compare notes, Evan and Henry left the Montrose Estate to find the other survivors of the incident. The easily found Dante who knew fellow student Kevin’s apartment. When they all arrived, the ruined entrance and bloodstains only raised more questions.

Rescue

As Evan and Dante case the scene of Kevin MacKintrye’s home, Henry sees his grandmother outside speaking to a little girl. This is a surprise since she has never left her home before. More surprising to some, but not to Henry, is that she is dead. A spirit Henry has been able to see since his powers emerged. Old Lady Crowley, as she was once known, shoos the little girl away. Henry follows his grandmother back to her mansion as she explains she was just confirming some rumors. She asks of his companions. Upon realizing who they are, shes pleads with Henry to leave town. When hearing of the events at Penn Station, she realizes that Henry needs to learn more of his past before going forward into this world that she has sheltered him from for so long. She asks him to go see Paul Mackey at the Dupin Society at the Edgar Allen Poe museum. Mackey will have the information Henry should know.

Kevin awakens in the back of an armoured truck with a naked Tera West present, but also in a heavy cage. She explains that she had suspicions, but with the fresh cuts on his neck, she can confirm that Kevin is of the lineage of the Jade Court of Vampires. She knows this because she once encountered one many years ago. Kevin persists that this must all be a dream. The truck stops and Damocles Ravenborn opens the back doors.

Using a tracking spell Evan and Dante drive to the docks. They see Damocles load a boat with a cage with someone in it. As Dante stalks closer and Evan focuses nonchalantly at his tracking spell, they see Damocles coming out to an armoured car and escorting Kevin into the boat. There, Kevin sees an unconscious Evelyn Masters and Susan Mallenbaum. Dante fires with his bow and grazes Damocles as he exits the lower holding. Damocles rushes father into the boat for cover. Evan then freezes the water around the boat. Kevin frees Ms. West from the cage and escorts her out. When reentering with Dante, Evelyn and Susan are gone. An engine is heard close by and a speed boat rushes out of the pier with Damocles at the helm. Evan hexes the boat and the engines blows. Damocles throws a large, compressed air canister at the dock and the gas explodes, filling the area with a heavy mist. Dante and Kevin fall to the ground as Evan’s sight is automatically turned on. Evan gets it under control and blows away all the mist. Dante’s body grows to the size of a house while Kevin’s skin becomes like marble and, for an instant, sparkles.
Sirens are heard from an incoming patrol boat and an unmarked car with police lights speeds up to the dock. Sergeant Jim Flanagan calls out to the party to stand down as Leslie Vastolo and Luis Mirabal exit their car and draw guns. As Dante is about to fix everything with fighting, Flanagan cools the situation by recognizing the Montrose symbol adorning Evan. The officers worked with Evan’s father.
Flanagan captain’s a boat belonging to the Montrose Estate into the lake with the party and Ms. West. Vastolo and Mirabal find Susan on the speedboat but no one else. They take her back for medical treatment. Flanagan brings the party to the most likely of places Damocles, or “D-Bag” as they call him, would have took Evelyn. Fort Carroll.

As they enter an overgrown area of the Fort, they start making their way to the main building. A fireball rushes out the main door and starts lighting up the forest. A hysterical Evelyn is shooting flames from her hands but then collapses. Three men in robes take her back to a pit dug into the floor of the main chamber. The party surrounds the robed men and engage them. In the ensuing battle, one is burnt to a near crisp as Evan carries some flame into the room. Another runs into the burning forest to escape. The last falls into the pit and opens a way to the Nevernever to flee. Evelyn is rescued from the flames by Kevin, and Dante scoops up the kidnapped and “Mr. Crispy” from the pit. Evan brings forth the last of his will and produces a tidal wave to put out the forest fire. The robed escapee who went into the forest is found burnt to death or possibly drowned. The sun rises as the party and company embark with the boat. Kevin starts to sparkle.

The First Sunrise

Henry Graves goes to the hospital to follow up on the tests to find out why his burns were getting better.Kevin MacKintrye leaves the hospital and begins to sparkle. Evan Montrose finally gets to the hospital to offer help with Kevin’s changes before Kevin leaves. One of the kidnapped victims of Penn Station and Fort Carroll, Anya wakes in a fugue state, runs into Henry and has words with Andy but not before easily taking out an officer guarding Andy’s door. Anya has amnesia but remembers that Andy is the world to him. Andy explains to Henry that the duo are travelling thieves. The police have already identified Andy and, with his injuries as being one of the victims left behind at Penn Station, he’s in no state to make a run for it. He pleads with Henry to keep Anya safe since he saw Henry’s heroics hours before. Henry and Anya run into Evan and they all go back to the Montrose Estate.

Kevin gets home to a doorless apartment and receives a call from his parents. Apparently they’ve been Jade Court Vampires all this time and were very excited to hear if Kevin made his first kill. Kevin hangs up and still wishes this was a dream.

Wellington informs Evan and his guests that they should get some rest and that Evan’s father’s funeral is in the evening. They agree and head out in the evening. Kevin gets a call from his parents who say that they’ve heard disturbing rumors. A contract to find Kevin has been put out in the supernatural community describing Kevin to the last detail. Kevin travels to Evan’s place via scooter and sees the party leaving, being driven by Wanda. Kevin follows.

Funeral

The party attend the funeral of Evan’s father, Old Man Montrose. As the procession takes place Henry is confronted by a wandering spirit looking for her sister. He makes a note to look into it. Kevin arrives in time to see Anya leave the funeral and enter a limo with an imposing figure. Wanda introduces Evan to Sister Peter Ann Doran, Reverend Isaiah Smith, Imam Jamil al-Islam and Rabbi Benjamin Greenstone. They were his father’s allies as well. Dante shows up expecting to find a building housing Lea buts finds a graveyard and Lea off to the side at a funeral, which just happens to be for Evan’s father. She congratulates him on surviving the night. She explains that to fully understand his history he must stay close to Evan and his companions since their connections will be of much help. She also gives Dante a boon of her power; something to make his transformations much more focused. She warns that this power that she gives him comes at a price.
As the procession leaves, a robed figure suddenly appears in front of the the holy men and woman. Sister Peter Ann seems seems unfazed and asks the robed one, which she refers to as “Rashid” that the second procession may begin. Rashid travels past the party and is quickly joined by Lea. They each open a portal, one showing a land of green and warmth, the other showing snow and bitter ice. Creatures of Fae, both Summer and Winter, enter the graveyard. Aside from the usual fair one would except, Valkyries, Kringle, and even both Ladys of Fae come through the portals.
After the second procession takes place and the guests leave, Henry notices a large amount of gravediggers working at once. They are identified as ghouls. They make a demand for Old Man Montrose’s body. The party decide not to give the ghouls dead wizard flesh to munch on and attack. After bullets, fists, and spells fly, not to mention a little bit of faith, the ghouls are mostly dispatched with only one running for the hills. After Wanda made an entrance going through the graveyard to run over a ghoul, the party had to take the hearse back to the Estate. Evan decided to take the body back to his mansion where he was convinced the family must have some crypts somewhere. Upon loading the body, it was revealed that Evan’s father’s eyes were missing.

Wellington informs Evan that he has a guest waiting when they get back. The party splits as Evan has words with the Valkyrie who attended his father’s funeral. Dressed now in a power suit she introduces herself as Ms. Gard. She works for Monoc Securities and supported a venture with Evan’s father. The details of the venture are shrouded in secrecy but what are known are the investors of said venture are being all courted by Vasiliki Lagios, the White Court Patriarch of this city. Ms. Gard recommends that Evan attend the event, inquire with the investors about their stake and find out what Vasiliki wants to do with the venture.
Henry goes to the Dupin Society. Paul Mackey shows him to the archive of knowledge beneath the Edgar Allen Poe museum. Henry learns that his family comes from a clan who was given power hundreds of years ago to defend themselves and to use said power to bring about change. The last tome Henry reads claims that the most orthodox members of the clan came to the new world(America) to reinstate their god’s power into this realm of existence. A drawing of these pilgrims shows one with striking resemblance to Henry’s grandmother, Old Lady Crowley. Upon leaving, Henry inquires why the Dupin Society doesn’t do anything to help people with all their knowledge. Mackey claims that such ventures have happened before with his predecessors and that the society were nearly wiped out each time. He will not let that happen again and keeps the Society neutral as vigilante watchers of the supernatural community of Baltimore. Henry tells them the blanket they pull over themselves will not keep them safe from the storm around them. Before Henry leaves, Juan Vastolo tells Henry that he overheard the conversation with Mackey and that there are members of the Dupin Society which shares Henry’s views and would like to be more active in supporting the supernatural community from being swallowed up by the dangers present in their world.

Evan travels to Neutral Grounds, a coffee shop across from John Hopkins Hostipal, and talks to Dr. Allison Ralston to inquire about his father’s missing eyes. Dr. Ralston tells Evan that, she too, was an ally of his fathers and that she received instructions from him, post-mortem, to take his eyes out and hide them. Also, to do her best to forget where she put them. Dr. Ralston interpreted that as to take the eyes, put them in a waterproof bag, put the bag in the weighted box that came with the post-mortem instructions, get wicked drunk, and throw the box into the shark tank at the aquarium. Evan asks the proprietor of the shop, Diane Basset, for some supplies and goes home to prepare for a dive.

Kevin leaves the estate to find someplace away from all these events. With a contract on his head, Kevin eventually finds a motel where he can stay under a false name. The events catch up to him as the imposing figure he saw Anya leaving with is now sitting in an armchair of his room when he wakes up. The man identifies himself as Vasiliki Lagios. He knows about the contract and offers help. Vasiliki offers to house and protect Kevin, even make it possible for Kevin to lead a normal life again. The only thing Vasiliki requires is for Kevin to be his mole and to spy on Evan. Kevin says he’ll think about it and Vasiliki asks him to come to an event he is holding over the weekend. Vasiliki will want a final answer then. Vasiliki leaves as Dante shows up. They both depart back to Evan’s estate. Dante tells Kevin that he has a plan to identify why both of them are going through changes and to find a way to suppress it and, possibly, even a way to trigger it, making such a discovery available to the public.

As the party reconvene at the Montrose estate, Evan tells them that he needs to go swim with some sharks to find his father’s missing eyes.

Circling Sharks

With the revelation that Evan’s father’s eyes are in a shark tank, Henry contacts Evelyn to gain access to the aquarium after hours. Wanda drives the party to meet Evelyn who has brought Susan in tow. All but Wanda head in the aquarium and get to the shark tank. Susan explains to Kevin that she is worried about Evelyn’s new powers and her new personality as well. Evan, bringing his own swimming attire and potions to breathe underwater and put the sharks to sleep, dives in and locates the box. As Evan gets out, the party is assaulted by masked figures toting guns demanding for the box. In addition, White Court Vampires start to inflict despair over the entire party. The party triumphs with only a busted shark tank of collateral in their wake. Evelyn and Susan ask to stay with the group as they head back to the estate.

Evan unlocks the box and looks into one of the eyes which seems to be some sort of glass. Upon looking, a spell triggers and all occupants of the house are brought to some sort of mindscape. This area of rushing clouds becomes a white room with the occupant being the party and Old Man Montrose. Evan’s father dismisses Wellington, Evelyn and Susan from the mindscape and starts to reveal the truth of his venture.
Set up years ago by Montrose’s father, Montresor, and friend Fortunato, they used the power of the ley line to create a sanctuary for supernatural people who needed to go in hiding and a place to rehabilitate others. Eventually, the sanctuary started being used by the supernatural community to hid many things. One use was by the Fae courts to use as a PoW camp. The sanctuary abilities are:

-allows rituals to be made that takes a willing person’s memories out and replaces them with new ones
-old memories are kept in the vault under the Montrose estate
-sustain’s a human guise on the individual

Evan blindly believes that his father is a Lawbreaker. Henry sees the many flaws of such a place. Individually, Old Man Montrose talks with the members of the party. He confirms to Henry that his grandmother was part of the Believers of Eternia and that they, did in fact, manifest their god back into existence. That god, still being weak and having enemies present that vanquished it before, was put into the Sanctuary to gain power until it was the correct time.
Old Man Montrose tells Dante that Henry’s grandmother kept his mother’s powers a secret. The plane crash that killed Dante’s parents was either politician maneuvering against his father or some type of assassination to kill his mother for whatever power she held.
Kevin is told that his powers are not absolute and that he may shed them if wanted. The only condition is that he has to go against his nature and become selfless, make bonds, and use courage to defend others. The tipping point would be if Kevin would ever kill using is Jade Court powers. If that would happen, Kevin would become full Jade Court and there would be no turning back.
Finally, Evan is told that Damocles Ravenborn made his father use his Death Curse. That curse wiped a few weeks of memories of everyone in the area. This was needed since Old Man Montrose already gave the secret to the vault to Damocles on threat that he would kill Susan, who happened to be Damocles hostage at the time. Killing the Red Court vampire would have been simpler, but such organization in his final battle tipped Old Man Montrose off that someone was ordering Damocles around, and possibly evening watching them battle. He had to effect that person as well.
Evan is told the eye is the key to the vault and that only he can decide that fate of all those people in hiding and residing in Baltimore.

Lawbreaker

The party awakens at the Montrose Estate to sounds resembling mortar fire. The party discovers Evelyn practicing her newly discovered pyromancy in the back lawn hitting various objects thrown at a distance by Wellington. Kevin goes in to search for some semblance of a computer while the rest join Evelyn for breakfast. As most of the party start imparting advice to Evelyn, that mostly fall on deaf ears, Kevin makes a discovery in Evelyn’s personal belongings. Kevin and the freshly awoken Susan confront Evelyn about this inhaler which is containing the drug “True Sight”; the very gas that was the catalyst for many of the party’s powers. She claims it helps her focus her pyromancy and that it’s none of their business. She leaves with Susan in a huff.

Shortly thereafter, Sister Peter Ann shows up to have a word with Evan. Apparently she is part of the Ordo Lebes and has worked with the Paranet to provide sanctuary to various people hiding from execution from of White Council. The endevour that Evan has inherited from his father used a ritual in conjunction with Baltimore’s Ley line to mask the Black Magic taint on these fugitives so they could go undetected. Evan tells Sister Peter Ann that he doesn’t care. If a person broke a rule of magic, no matter in what defense or circumstances of the situation they were in, that person should die. What his father did was hide fugitives and he is resolved to tear down his father’s work at the soonest possible venture.
Sister Peter Ann tells Evan that a Warden is believed to be coming to town and that she was going to ask Evan if he could shoo him away. But it is apparent that Evan is steadfast in his opinion.

Upon Sister Peter Ann’s departure, Evan contacts the White Council. With much interference, Evan at least gets the location of when and where the Warden will arrive that day. He, Dante, and Wanda go to meet the arriving Warden.
Kevin gets a call from Susan. Susan says that Evelyn has disappeared and that Susan fears that she might have went in search for more True Sight. Kevin and Henry travel to Susan’s. Upon learning that Evelyn has an old friend who is a drug dealer, Henry calls the estate to tell Wellington to tell the others where they can meet them.

Evan and his party arrive at Penn Station to find that the White Council sent Warden Morgan to town. He shows Evan’s party a picture of Kevin, Susan, and Evelyn entering the aquarium just the night before. Morgan asks where he can find the female in this picture. Evan tells Morgan that they can get that information back at his estate. When they arrive, Wellington opens the doors and locks eyes with Morgan. Forced by the contract to serve the Montrose Estate, Wellington tells Evan’s party where they can find Evelyn and the rest. Dante is perturbed by this altercation and inquires why Wellington is so hesitant. Dante learns that a person who breaks a Law of Magic is usually killed with a trial that is only a formality that precedes the execution. He is about to leave on his on motorbike when he tells Wanda of Evan and Morgan’s intentions. Wanda gives him assurance that Dante is going to have a good head start and that she might take a while to drive today. Dante leaves and Wanda starts driving Evan and Morgan using the scenic route.

Kevin, Henry and Susan are dropped off at the beginning of the “East Green”. These slums are surrounded by riots caused by the usual mortal oppression of minorities. They travel to find Evelyn in a diner with a man who is seen handing her a paper bag. They enter the diner and confront Evelyn and her friend "Lizard”. After not-so-friendly small talk, Henry slams Lizard’s head into the table. A man from Lizard’s crew comes from the washroom and points a gun at Henry but Kevin slows him down with his vampire powers. Henry gets the information on where True Sight is made and the party leaves with Evelyn, gaining the ire of Lizard.

Henry and party trek back to where they got dropped off to find Dante heeding warnings of Evan and his new guest. Before a plan is executed to run, Evan shows up, with Morgan driving the car, after telling Wanda to exit the vehicle due to her use of the scenic route. Morgan proclaims that he is here to take one Susan Mallenbaum with him. Morgan easily brushes off Evelyn’s fireballs and knocks out Susan. Dante tries to get some momentum against Morgan and yells for Evan to help. Evan apologizes and delays Dante with magic. Henry, seeing the futility of fighting Morgan and his zealousness, leaves. Deciding to make a quick exit than cause massive amounts of collateral damage, Morgan tells Evan to open a way to the Nevernever. Evan does and he, Morgan and an unconscious Susan go through. The way closes, but Kevin speeds in just as it does. The sun is shining wherever he is but Kevin isn’t sparkling. Evan says to stay close to him.

Nevernever

Morgan gags and binds Susan’s hands with vines. He yells at Kevin to not make this trip out of here more difficult.

A yellow brick road is followed through almost endless poppy fields. Evan holds Susan’s leash. A top of a hill looks down to a lake bordered by mountains. They must cross.

The sole boathouse is boatless, aside from the saddled and sleeping Narwals. Presences are felt as they rush to the boathouse. A platoon of Red Court yells for Morgan’s blood. Damocles Ravenborn is with them but neither party really cares. Morgan explains to Evan to veil an image of Morgan onto a narwal. Evan and the rest will be used as bait. Kevin fingers the narwals blowholes, it was the only way.
The party lures most of the Reds to the middle of the lake. Morgan is about to move mountains. A rumble is heard. Mountains closing in. Kevin and Susan flee to the other end of the lake. The smarter Reds understand and close in on the boathouse. Evan rides back and saves Morgan with only inches of a claw. Mountains clap. A tidal wave shoots in two directions, splitting an already split party.

Kevin and Susan wake. They travel the yellow brick. Susan remembers her past life, while in the Nevernever. Her boyfriend went splat. She didn’t mean it. He was an asshole, but she didn’t mean for him to go splat. Now she hides from the executioner’s axe held by the Wardens. Kevin says there must be hope, showing his ignorance, but gleaming hope.

Evan and Morgan are washed to the forests. Morgan is wounded and entrusts Evan to find the fugitive Susan. Morgan gives instructions for Evan to request reinforcements when back in Baltimore.

Evan talks to a velociraptor and rides his brother Frank to catch up with Kevin and Susan. Evan reaches over and redacted Frank’s redacted for some reason.

With a fork in the road, Kevin and Susan decide on a spooky forest rather then always-on-fire valley. Reds have survived, led by Damocles, and are coming for them.

Evan and Frank find more Red’s from their side led by the almost Morgan killer. Frank removes many limbs and heads but doesn’t swallow. He is vegan after all.

Kevin and Susan find the center of the spooky forest. A tea party is being held. The stuffed bear wearing a top hat and smoking a hookah greets them. Kevin asks for help back to Baltimore. Bear says this is easy but tea must be served first. Kevin offers to helps but only a servant is allowed to do so. Bear looks to rabbit. The rabbit doesn’t move, since it’s a stuffed rabbit.

Kevin gets to the spooky forest but the brush is too dense for Kevin. They part ways. Evan finds the tea party just after Damocles does. Kevin and Damocles have a grade school insult match. It devolves into an Eat-off. Bear is please and uses magic to lock their arms together cross-like. Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” starts playing all around them.

Meetings and Trials

Henry, after leaving the confrontation with Warden Morgan, arrives at the Montrose Estate to find Wanda coming in by cab. She is let into the house by Wellington who stops Henry and asks if he is siding with Evan in this conflict with Susan. Henry says he’s on no side and asks for more info on the situation. Wellington finds a compromise of moving away from the door but not officially inviting Henry in.

Henry wants to meet the people whom are invested in Old Man Montrose’s venture and Wellington defers him to talk to Monoc Securities to try and set up any type of meeting. Just as Wellington passes the eyes to Henry which open the vault below the Montrose Estate, Henry feels a presence in the room. He turns and fires at it. An entropy shield forms in front of a person that was veiled there the entire time. Wellington yells for Henry to stop, as the formerly veiled figure is here to protect her interest in the vault. Putting away her wand, Elaine Mallory explains to Henry that she has nearly 100 people hiding under Old Man Montrose’s venture who seek sanctuary from the White Council. Much like Susan, these people were helped by Elaine and the Paranet to stay alive.

Henry and Elaine put the eyes into the statue underneath the estate and the entrance opens to the vault. The vault has rows of items on selves with a select special few along the furthest wall. While Elaine starts removing files from a cabinet, Henry uses his powers to see a past of how the vault works and many of its occupants, all of whom have their memories stored in their item of power in the vault.

Elaine and Henry leave the vault. As Elaine begins a journey to start kidnapping fugitives of the White Council before Evan can rat them out, Henry makes a call to Ms. Gard at Monoc Securities. Henry tells Ms. Gard to set up a meeting with the share holders of the vault. Henry wants to block or, at very least, present alternatives to Vasiliki Lagios’ claim to run the vault. Ms. Gard says interrupting their schedules at such short notice might be impossible but she’ll try.
After hanging up, Henry calls the only contact number he has on any of the investors; The Knights of the Cross. After a long grilling by an unsympathetic and difficult secretary, the six-year old on the other end of the phone passes it to his dad.
The man on the other end says that he is retired but knows of the Knights stake in Montrose’s venture. He says he will send an appropriate representative.

Evan, Kevin, and Susan arrive back into Baltimore. Susan, upon re-entering, memories get blurry and has forgotten all of her life before Baltimore, again. Evan convinces a naive Kevin that Susan will get a fair trial and leads them back to his estate.

Henry tells Evan of the meeting that he has called. Ms Gard had called and said that the Knights’ representative had somehow convinced the other investors to arrive to Baltimore tonight. As Henry shows Evan the vault, Dante and Evelyn show up. Evelyn is relieved that Susan is there and starts to make a hastily retreat when Kevin says that Evan is down stairs. Evelyn goes to confront Evan with fireballs. Evan begins to retort by drawing his pistol. Henry stops them both. At this moment, Dante leaves with Wanda with the only working car and heads to go see Old Lady Crowley.

As they prepare to leave for the meeting, Warden Carlos Ramirez and two other Wardens knock on Evan’s door. Susan and Evelyn hide upstairs with Kevin. The Wardens ask Henry to leave and, with the meeting near starting, he does. The Wardens search the the house as Evelyn stalls them for time and Kevin helps Susan make it down to the grounds out of the window. The Wardens catch sight of them as they try to escape. Pinning Susan down with magic and keeping Kevin easily at bay, Evan magically flings Kevin far off the property. The Wardens and Evan take Susan into the house. Kevin goes to find Henry.

Henry arrives at the Francis Scott Key Bridge and meets with Ellsworth Dillman who has blocked off the bridge for the meeting. Henry arrives just in time for Ms. Gard to introduce the other arriving guests; The Summer Lady and Summer Knight, The Winter Lady, Mr. Ferro, Mr. Vadderung. The representative for the Knights is late but Ms. Gard starts as Kevin arrives to tell Henry of the happenings back at the estate. Henry commits to the meeting and Kevin sits down. After Ms. Gard gives the floor to Henry, a man starts walking from the other side of the bridge. It is Vasiliki Lagios and he convinces the members attending, aside from Henry and Kevin, that his input and second view point of the future of the vault is worth him attending.

Henry tries to begin again when a not-so-blue Volkswagen Beetle crashes through the barricade and anticlimactically dies feet from the meeting table. Out comes a woman bearing a sheathed Sword of the Cross. Out of the driver side, a man exits the car and smiles before addressing most of the table whom, for better or for worst, already know him.

A New Knight

GM’s Note: This information is available to all members of the party. Even though the person playing Dante was the only person there, he has a bad memory. Therefore, I would allow anyone to have gained the following information from Dante in between scenes.

Dante and Wanda leave the estate and travel to the Graves Manor. Using his powers mimicking those of Henry, Dante is able to see and talk to Old Lady Crowley.

She tells Dante she sheltered his mother because Dante’s mother was a very important person who belonged to the same faith. Old Lady Crowley tells Dante of her journey to the Americas. Along with the more orthodox of her clan, they embarked on a journey to reinstate their god into its rightful place of power. After discovering the right temple and holding off a last minute contingent of both Winter and Summer forces, not only did they bring back their god back into existence, they deceived the attacking forces to believe that the ritual had failed.

With only a few members of her clan able to escape with their reborn god, they were in dire straights. Their god was severely under powered, for god standards, after the rebirth and they didn’t have the power or numbers to keep her safe. Crowley then devised a plan.

Using the facilities of an ally, a young Montrose, who had inherited a “sanctuary” of sorts to hide important items and rehabilitate members of the supernatural community, she came up with a plan to both keep her god safe and gather her god’s allies. Pushing an agenda Montrose had put forward to utilize the sanctuary as a P.O.W. camp for the unending Summer/Winter war, she would find the P.O.W.‘s whom once were loyal to her god but sore fealty to either Summer or Winter when her god and their kingdom fell. After informing them of their former ruler’s return, she would have them lie in wait to when enough allies were gathered, and they would make a move to solidify themselves back as a nation.

Because long ago, the Fae had not 2 courts but 4. The two most aggressive of courts schemed to destroy the other two, rather than fight a war on three sides. That is when both the Summer and Winter Fae allied for the only time and felled both the Spring and Autumn courts. But power like those of the Queens cannot really be destroyed but merely forgotten. And even after erasing most of Spring and Autumn from the history books, a tribe in their most desperate hour, many generations after, found Spring and worshiped her. The followers, now called the Followers of Eternia, had much infighting and the Crowley clan decided to come to the new world and risk it all to revive the Spring Queen.

Crowley had aided Montresor, Montrose’s father, when the Sanctuary had first been built against its co-creator Fortunato. Fortunato was swayed by dark magics to take control of the vaults items and enslave it’s people. Crowley and allies were able to save the Sanctuary but leaving both Montresor and Fortunato mortally wounded. Later, Crowley would ask Montrose for his aid in her plan, calling in her favour for aiding in defending the Sanctuary many years ago. Montrose agreed, but only if the P.O.W.’s made their own decision to rejoin Spring and not have to be magically bound to serve Spring again.

The Sanctuary then became more powerful, not only using the ley line to mask outside scrying searches for items and people, but also used Spring magic to both veil and set aside certain memories of the inhabitants, making it virtually impossible for someone to detect an individuals true nature even if they were in the same room.
This removal of memories was always done by the Spring Queen. Montrose would take the Spring Queen from hiding and allow her to do the ritual, both to recruit certain fey and to make sure Montrose would never be in a position to be close to breaking a Law of Magic.

Crowley explains the details of his powers, those which were once granted to her, the power of the Spring Knight. Dante asks why Crowley didn’t pass on the Spring Knight powers to one of her children, as per tradition. She tells him that she would have but she and her daughter died too soon. Now, being Old Lady Crowley, she, Montrose, and many other powerful individuals around Baltimore had to defend the Sanctuary once again but this time against Fortunato’s bastard son, Alistair.
Alistair left Europe and his wretched step father in hopes of a better life with his biological father. Upon arriving to Baltimore, only hearsay remained of what became of his father. Crowley took him into her household. Over years of living together Alistair became infatuated with Crowley’s daughter but his advances were always brushed off. Alistair’s limit came years later on the wedding day of Crowley’s daughter. It is reported that the source of the dark magic that turned his father found Alistair and twisted the truth about his father’s death. With new powers and a new grudge, Alistair kidnapped Crowley’s daughter, killed her husband, and went off to gather forces to attack and take over the Sanctuary once and for all.
It was many decades later when Crowley and Montrose were able to find Alistair. Alistair had made camp just outside of town and it seemed mere hours before the Sanctuary would be taken by force. Knowing the implications of such fallout if Alistair would succeed, Montrose and Crowley gathered allies from both investors of the vault( Summer and Winter, Knights of the Cross, and even a few honest-to-Odin Valkyries) and from interested players in the area which might be greatly affected by Alistair’s rise to power( minor practitioner’s, people of faith, rumored vampires of the Jade Court). Montrose was lucky enough to be able to get his one ally from the White Coucil’s governing body. Crowley’s biggest move was to convince the local White Court and a “young” Vasiliki Lagios of the dangers Alistair presented and convinced the Court to protect their territory. Thus, The Infamous Battle for Baltimore began.

Even with Montrose and Crowley’s allies, Alistair just had the numbers and years of planning. The turning point is when Crowley had to battle her own daughter. After mortally wounding her, Crowley discovered that Alistair never broke her and that Alistair was using immense mind control on her daughter. Not only his daughter, many of his forces as well. Crowley, having some magical talent of her own, decided to make the ultimate sacrifice and released her Death Curse upon Alistair. Alistair died and the source of his powers fell. Many of his forces either stopped in their tracks and some others even gained enough control to fight Alistair’s true loyalists back. The day was won.

Montrose’s ally from the White Council, Injun Joe, made a shocking discovery in the aftermath of the battle. Old Lady Crowley’s daughter was with child. Joe literally craved the baby out of the womb and used his magics to sustain it. He delivered the baby to it’s grandfather. Montrose took the source of Alistair’s power and hid it in the vault. Crowley’s belief manifested as a spirit to guide her remaining clan and to raise her grandson, Henry. Crowley’s spirit had Montrose destroy all records of her daughters life as the pawn of Alistair, but what remained were whispers of a woman who abandoned a child to run away with her lover.

The Spring Queen granted the mantle of Spring Knight to Dante’s mother. Crowley’s ghost sheltered Dante’s mother as much as she could but could not use the Sanctuary veiling powers since the Spring Knight had to be able to defend itself. But even through all of Crowley’s sheltering, love found a way in. Dante’s father came into the picture, had Dante, and all was well. Until reports of certain Fae, asking about Dante’s mother, showed up to town. The Storm family was warned that someone from the Winter court had showed up to town and were inquiring about Dante’s mother. The family left on a plane as soon as possible, but the plane crashed.

That is all Old Lady Crowley knows. She tells Dante to keep the Spring Queen safe during these troubled times. She tells him to keep Evelyn Masters safe.